Eric Nazarian

Eric Nazarian is a screenwriter, filmmaker and photojournalist. In 2007, Nazarian wrote and directed “The Blue Hour,” a first feature film that won six international awards. In 2008, Nazarian received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® (home of the Oscars) prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for his original screenplay, “Giants.” In turn, Nazarian’s film “Bolis” was the recipient of the Best Short Film Award at the 14th Arpa International Film Festival in 2011.
Literary Corner

A Book for All who Resist

I reread “The Resistance Network” by my dear friend Khatchig Mouradian as soon as the book arrived from Amazon. Luckily,…

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Commentary

We are alone

On Saturday, the “humanitarian ceasefire” was put into effect that Azerbaijan broke in four minutes, one minute earlier than the…

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Interviews

The Dreamt Land: A Conversation with Mark Arax

  Mark Arax has written a most important book about the multilayered and braided narrative of California through the manipulation…

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Featured

Sights Unseen: Hrant Dink’s Site of Memory

“I have a special affection for 23 Aprils. This date is also the day my wife and I got married.…

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Op-Eds

Hrant: A Light in the Darkening

The following is a reflection piece by screenwriter, filmmaker, and photojournalist Eric Nazarian on the 10th commemoration of Hrant Dink’s assassination,…

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Letters to the Editor

Nazarian: Letter to Recai

The first time we met Recai Altay in 2013, our small group of seven had just walked down from Soorp…

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Op-Eds

Nazarian: Dink and the Persistence of Hope

The following is the  text of a speech written by filmmaker Eric Nazarian for the Hrant Dink commemoration event in…

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Op-Eds

The Ghosts of Bank Ottoman Past

Special for the Armenian Weekly The story never ends when it comes to Armenians and Turks, the genocide, and the…

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Opinion

A Wish for Aladdin and the Future of Atonement

The following is the text of the speech given by Eric Nazarian in Ankara, Turkey, on Jan. 17, 2015, for…

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Opinion

Nazarian: The Blackberries of Kharpert

Special for the Armenian Weekly It’s been an unspeakably bloody summer in the Middle and Near East. The awful war…

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